Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1887-06-09
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

the goth, and one John Lahart prisoner |
in it, was roasted alive in full sight and |
hearing of the Mortified citizens of the
town.
The new railway from Nisch, Servia, to
Ak Palanka, has been formally opened to
traffic, and its completion is regarded as
of great Importance to the Servian Gov
of troops.
In the first test of strength the new
French Ministry appears to have but
eleven majority of the Republican mem
bers of the Chamber of Deputies.
WILLIAM B. DoLAN interfered with Po-
iiceman John Klebba, who was trying to
queu a disturbance at Detroit, Mich, on
the night of the 30th, and was shot and
instantly killed. Mrs. Connor, grand
mother of the deceased, died from tn e eff
feet of the shock.
SAMUEL PRINKEY, living near Conneils
vile, Pa, stabbed his wife with PEN
knife on the night of the 30th, inf1icting
fatal wounds. The couple have been
separated for several weeks and jealousy
IS supposed to have prompted the deed.
Prinlzey has been locked up.
WHILE towing a raft down the Little
Kanawha, on the 30th, the boiler of the
tug boat Whale ex ploded, killing the en-
gineer, Peter Walters, and fatally in ur.
ing Jackson Smith, the fireman, and the
ten-year-old son of the engineer, whose
right arm was completely blown OF at
the shoulder.
1T was reported on the 3lst at Pitts
burgh that the stove molders had decid-
ed to stand out firmly for an advance in
wages, and they will refuse to sign the
agreement asked for by the manufactur-
ers. This postpoaes the settlement OF the
strike indefinitely.
CnyNAN has issued
important circular on pleure-pneumo nia,
addressed to the transportation COM
panies.
A GREAT fire is reported from Hamburg.
The area desolated is from 800 to 400 yards
| in extent. The damage will reach several
million marks.
REV. W. C. STILES, formerly of st.
| Louis, has mysteriously disappeared from
Pittsfield, n. II.
| A RUSSIAN mob attacked an English
brewery near ST. Petersburg on the 1st,
and a number of persons were killed.
| THE actual reduction of the pu bic debt
during May was s., SSS, 99Z. &c; since June
80, 1886, s92, $751; 921. 81.
BUCK TAYLOR, a rider in the "W lid
| West'' show, sustained a compound frac-
| ture of one of his thighs on the 1st, by
| being thrown from his horse.
MODELS of five new war-ships to be built
| by the Government are on exhibition now
at Washington.
| A BLOODY war between the Indians OF
the United States and British America,
| near the Northwest boundary is believed
| to be inevitable.
W. C. KENNETT & Co.'s tannery at Gin
| cinnati, was destroyed by fire on the nigh t
| of the 1st; loss, including stock, $50, Co.,
TIE thirty-third biennial convention of
the Evangelical Lutheran church in the
United States, began its sessions at Oma-
ha, Neb., on the 1st
Mr. J. W. BRYANT, of New Orleans,
| representing the steamboat interests OF
the Ohio and Mississippi rivers, made an
| argument before the Interstate Com
merce Commission at Washington on
the 1st.
THE funeral of Major Ben. Perley Poore
at Indian Hill farm, near Newburyport,
Mass, on the 1st, was largely attended,
notwiths landing the severe rain-storm
which prevailed. The services were
simple and imposing.
THE internationi Sunday-school conven-
ton opened at Chicago on the 1st. When
a Maine minister stated that Maine pos
sessed presidential timber, every body
appeared to think of Blaine and cheered.
L. D. PARENT, the young cashier of the
Hockelaga Bank at Montreal, has alb
seconded and is defaulter to the extent
of Sl2, 000 He is said to be in Boston. He
left behind him at Point Clare wife and
three children.
THE clearing away of the debris from
the site of the Opera Conlique was con-
cluded on the LIST. No more bodies were
found LIE Temps says the official number
is seventy, of which fifty have been iden-
titled. Two wagon loads of charred limbs
have been taken to the morgue.
| BERLIN advices say the joy felt there at
the downfall of General Boulanger is
more silent than expressed. There is
very little confidence, however, in the
liability of the new French Ministry.
THEODORE SToHLER, of Paterson, n. j.,
shot his wife, Alkaline, aged twenty-three,
on the evening of the 1st, and then shot
himself He IS thought to have been a
little out of his head for some time. He
was insanely jealous OF his wife, VINO Is
quite pretty woman.
THE effect of the recent heavy rains al
Key West, Fla, has become manifest in
an increase of sickness at that place. Six
new cases of yellow fever are now being
treated by the health authorities.
| PROPOSALS for the completion of the ter
race and grand stairways of the National
Capitol were opened at the architects OF
flee in Washington on the 1st. The Yer
mont Marble Company was the successful
bidder, and as they had charge of al
work done heretofore, it assures uni
formity in the entire terrace and stair
ways. The bid was 1923, 700.
THE London Times claims that the Fee niau
Brotherhood has issued from heatquar-
tiers in New York a circular asking fol
funds for s'pyrotechnic displays" on the
occasion of the Queens jubilee, which the
Times asserts is movement for dynamite
outrageS.
A TERRIBLE plague of locusts has visitec
| the central provinces of Spain. The in
sects are so thick that gangs of men have
| had to be sent to clear the railway lines
Crops are fearfuIly ravaged.
THE National convention of colored meu
| called to meet in Indianapolis on the Is
| for the purpose of considering the pc
litical bondage in which the race ha
been held since the war, was but sllml,
attended, and adj burned without trans
| acting any business of Importance.
. A. o. BAILEY, Vice Commodore of tn
Royal Albert Yacht Club in England, ha
!. been declared bankrupt Liabilities
e67, 900.
QUEEN KApIoLANI arrived in England
I | on the I'd.
FIRE CHIEF NEv1Ns of the Brooklyn de
: | partment has been indicted for CRANE
| larceny.
The German steamer Oder is reportet
I wrecked and lost at sea-
!. MANY brid ges along the Southern Pacifi
q railway have been washed away by re
S cent floods.
e AN Indian prince is working up Treason
8 against the British Government in favo
0 of Russia.
h A JURY-FIxINa sensation has broken OF
S in connection with the Jake Sharpe tria
in New York.